KINSHASA, November 30, 2016 – Kabibi Saolona, an enterprising farmer from the Gemena territory in Sud-Ubangi Province, in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is thrilled. "I have increased...

Small and landlocked, Burundi depends on roads, and only roads, to move its people and goods. And as climate change leads to increasingly extreme weather, those roads are at risk from flooding and landslides....

The old roads had pools deep enough to stall a Land Rover. In the rainy season, long stretches were so thick with mud that trucks and people could not always slog through. Two-foot drop-offs from one side...

VEKKY-DAHO, January 22, 2016—For as long as they can remember, the residents of Sô-Ava, a municipality in the Atlantique Department of Benin, relied on pirogues, or local canoes, to travel between villages....

KADUNA STATE, January 5, 2016 – During the rainy season, the roads in rural Tami Village flooded so regularly that primary school students often missed too many classes to move on to secondary school....

To identify the most dangerous places in the world for drivers, passengers and pedestrians, it is enough to locate the following places on the world map: big cities, emerging countries and some areas of...

GOMA, October 20, 2015 — Residents of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in eastern DRC, live at the foot of one of Africa’s most active volcanoes, Mount Nyiragongo. They are philosophical about their situation:...

MONROVIA, September 10, 2015 – Despite the Ebola outbreak and other challenges affecting a post-conflict and fragile country, the Liberian government is making important strides to better connect the country’s...

Often, environmental challenges seem too intractable and too big to even approach, but when it comes to pollution, there is good reason to stay positive. Santiago, Chile and Bangkok, Thailand serve as...

When you hear about deadly air pollution, your mind is likely to turn to smog filled cityscapes and congested highways. Cities in India and China have become iconic for air pollution challenges and the...

PAJE, October 2, 2014 – Along Zanzibar’s southeast coast, majestic palm trees sway against the gentle breeze as if silently choreographing a plot to keep their enamored visitors spellbound and forever...

Africa, like the rest of the world, is witnessing a road safety crisis. With the highest per capita rate of road fatalities in the world, road deaths in sub-Saharan Africa are projected to more than double...

Hamashkorieb, Kassala State, June 10, 2013 – Just a few years ago, the route through the desert to Hamashkorieb was so dangerous, only the brave would attempt the two-day trek to reach the historic religious...

Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter Zenani was killed in a car crash as she was returning home from a World Cup concert in Soweto in 2010. Her death, two days after her 13th birthday, drew global attention...

Urbanization is one of the most significant modern-day phenomena, and making urban transport more sustainable has become an urgent development priority. Six out of 10 people will live in cities by 2030....

Today’s developed countries urbanized mostly gradually, their cities expanding over a period of 100 years or more as jobs shifted from farms to factories. The pace allowed for trial and error in growth...

Developing countries need to transition to a low-carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future, a new report by the World Bank warns. According to Turning...

As the world’s attention is directed toward the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, another global event is gaining momentum. The leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world...

Current growth patterns are not just unsustainable; they are also deeply inefficient. As a result, they stand in the way of sustainable development and its objectives of social, environmental and economic...

DOUALA September 8, 2010 — Standing on his veranda, Robert Mebuna can’t believe his eyes. As chairman of the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation for the Cité de la Paix district, he views the completion...